Thomas Zipp (born 1966,

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) is an artist based in

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Education

Zipp studied at the

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(with Thomas Bayrle) and the Slade School

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from 1992–1998.

Work

Art

With a palette that favors burnt umber, gray and army green, his dark thinly painted canvases and sculptures often come in a careworn palette of ash white, granite grey and much black. The paintings' stretchers sometimes extend into legs that might allow them to be carried like banners; some are paired with separately framed photo-based images of bearded 19th-century father figures or skeletons that seem to comment on the paintings. In his 2008 show "White Dada" at London's Alison Jacques Gallery,

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-style montages and defaced pictures included a textbook description of

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and images of drugs of the medical, non-recreational kind.

Music

In music, Zipp teamed up with Felix Weber to produce "Freie Musik" in 2002, first called Nazihipiwelt. They formed a trio called ZLW-Trio with electronic artist Sepp Löbert. Next Zipp and Weber founded the band DA ("Dickarsch", meaning fatass in English) in 2006. The band featured Stefan Branca on guitar, as well as Phillip Zaiser and Kai Erdmann. DA released the LP Nach Hause in 2007. The opening nights of Zipp's exhibitions often feature musical performances by the artist and his band.Thomas Zipp: White Dada, 17 October - 15 November 2008
Alison Jacques Gallery, London.

Teaching

Since 2008, Zipp has been a professor at the

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Exhibitions

Zipp's work has been shown work in many exhibitions including ''“Artforum Berlin”'

at Thread Waxing Space in

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and at Stadtische Galerie Wolfsbur

Zipp has also shown at galleries and museums such as Tate Modern

London, Transmission Gallery

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and

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. He is represented by Galerie Guido W Baudac

in Berlin; Alison Jacques Gallery in London; Patricia Low Contemporar

in Gstaad; Harris Lieberma

in New York; and Patrick Painte

and

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in Los Angeles.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2013 Comparative Investigation about the Disposition of the Width of a Circle, 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia (cat.) The Pink Noise Diaries, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan The chips are down, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York 2012 England Attacked By The Americas, Kunstverein Oldenburg Blackout Chambers, L'Arc de Cercle & Dissociative Amnesia, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin 3 contributions to the theory of mass-aberrations in modern religions, Alison Jaques Gallery, London 2011 Beyond the Superego, Galerie Krinziger, Vienna Achtung!: solarized deterritorialization. insanity against Protestantism (England attacked by the Americas), Ausstellungsraum Céline und Heiner Bastian, Berlin (cat.) bilobed flaps, Baronian_Francey, Brussels The World´s most complete Congress of Ritatin Treatments, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (cat.) The forbidden Conduct (Deviations in conservative societies), Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 2010 (White Reformation Co-op) Mens Sana in Corpore Sano, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (cat.) 2009 Faces, Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim The World’s Most Complete Congress Of Strange People, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin Mens Agitat Molem (Luther & The Family of Pills), Sammlung Goetz, Munich (cat.) 2008 White Dada, Alison Jacques Gallery, London Black Pattex 78, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid (cat.) Planet Caravan? Is There Life After Death? a Futuristic World Fair, Museum Dhondt-Daehnens, Deurle / Belgium S.S.B.S.M. (sick souls by sick minds), Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin 2007 Planet Caravan? Is There Life After Death? a Futuristic World Fair, South London Gallery, London (cat.) Planet Caravan? Is There Life After Death? a Futuristic World Fair, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim / Museum in der Alten Post, Mülheim (cat.) The Family of Ornament and Verbrechen, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna 2006 Hier (Futuristic Mess), Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich Geist über Materie, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica Uranlicht, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York (God bless the (Lord Auch)), Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin 2005 Dirty Tree Black Pills, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg (cat.) man muss das adjektiv abschaffen, Baronian_Francey, Brussels 2004 Futurism Now! Samoa leads, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles The New Breed, Part 1 (Geist Ohne Körper), Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt/M. (cat.) The New Breed, Part 2 (Geist Ohne Körper), Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt/M. (cat.) 2003 Neroin, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin (cat.) The Nero Command, Marc Jancou Fine Art, New York 2001 Exorcise the demons of perhaps, Maschenmode, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin Atrium Vagari (with Phillip Zaiser), Kunsthaus Essen, Essen 2000 OD, Maschenmode, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin

Group exhibitions (selection)

2008 Vertrautes Terrain – Aktuelle Kunst in & über Deutschland, ZKM, Karlsruhe (cat.) Back to Black – Schwarz in der aktuellen Malerei, kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (cat.) 2007 Euro-Centric. Part 1, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (cat.) Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago / Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami / Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal (cat.) Perspektive07, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München Mystic Truths, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland / Neuseeland (cat.) Made in Germany, kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (cat.) Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen 2007, Kunsthalle Bremen (cat.) 2006 Deformation of Character, PS.1, New York Rings of Saturn, Tate Modern, London Von Mäusen und Menschen, 4th

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, Berlin (cat.) 2005 When Humour Becomes Painful, Migrosmuseum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich (cat.) 2003 actionbutton, Hamburger Bahnhof / Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (cat.)

Publications (selections)

*''Achtung! Vision: Samoa, the family of pills & the return of the subreals'', Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005,
Ed. Guido W. Baudach
*''Planet Caravan? is there life after death? a futuristic world fair'', Kerber, Bielefeld/Leipzig 2007, . *''Mens agitat molem : Thomas Zipp; Luther & The Family of Pills'', Kunstverlag Goetz, München 2009,
Ed. Guido W. Baudach
*''Thomas Zipp, (white reformation co-op) mens sana in corpore sano'', Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2010,
Ed. Rein Wolfs und Guido W. Baudach

References

External links

kunstaspekte.deGuido W. Baudach

Patricia Low ContemporarySommer Contemporary ArtPatrick PainterAlison Jacques Gallery
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